Sphinx with Two Bodies

Giulio Romano|Wenceslaus Hollar

1652 · Etching, only state · Drawings and Prints

Female sphinx standing to front with basket of flowers on her head, over two lions, lying on the ground, their heads obscured. From a series of six plates, etched by Hollar after drawings by Giulio Romano from the collection of Nicolas Lanier, designs for stucco medallions at the Palazzo Te in Mantua.

Artist

Giulio Romano|Wenceslaus Hollar

Date

1652

Medium

Etching, only state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917